The Dish

0 commentsVietnamese cuisine on 29 North is now a pho pas. After being open for less than a year, Crystal's, the more upscale of only two Vietnamese restaurants in Charlottesville (Saigon Café's the other one...

0 commentsNow that the smells of saffron, seafood, and garlic are swirling around downtown Belmont with the recent opening of Mas Tapas Bar, you might think that hickory is history.
But Dish is here to tell...

0 commentsWhen Bistro 151 owner Anna Wallaker entered her Thai pie in the International Pizza Contest at the eleventh hour, she didn't expect to win a free trip to Vegas. But on March 25 she and pizza chef...

0 commentsSanta wasn't so good to Scottsville this year. After being open for less than a year, the upscale eatery Jimmy's on the James closed its doors for good on December 22. Owner James Norwood, who...

0 commentsRESTAURANTS GONE in 2002Petra (4)Out of business. The site is now East to West.Dunkin Donuts (4)Quit the chain and renamed Coffee and Donut Shop.Chang House (6)Burned to the ground in a mysterious...

0 commentsMove over, Napa. Pick up the pace, Finger Lakes. Experts agree that Albemarle County is ripe to become the next gourmet hot spot.
If your vision of bliss includes warm French pastries and hot coffee...

0 commentsSharpen up that steak knife, and fire up the grill. Albemarle's newest meat shop wants you to "eat lean."
Friday, December 13, at 10am marks the grand opening of the Georgetown Farm Market, a fully...

0 commentsFrom the look and feel of it, an architectural and culinary renaissance is about to hit Belmont. And its name, from the Spanish for "more," is Mas.
Dish popped into the old Hog Heaven spot at the...

0 commentsIt's finally happening, and it's about time. Folks on the east side of town from Zion Crossroads to Glenmore are seeing their shopping center, Rivanna Ridge, conveniently located on Pantops Mountain...

0 commentsWhen car washes were ordered to close back in September, restaurant owners shook in their shoes; after all, if such harsh punishment could come down on one industry, what would prevent a similar fate...

0 comments It looks as though the long-awaited reopening of Métropolitain restaurant on Water Street may be nigh.
Since 1991, when it opened in its original location on the Downtown Mall (now occupied by...

0 commentsPeering through our gastronomic goggles last month, Dish spotted a strange glow in the southern sky. A purplish haze hovered over the ground approximately 20 miles down Route 20 South, by our rough...

0 comments The doors are closed and locked, and the phone's been disconnected, never good signs for a restaurant (or any business, for that matter). What's going on at Vinegar Hill Grill, the restaurant...

0 commentsGood food, fine wine, and some pretty fancy people were all on hand last Thursday, October 3, at the Main Street Market for a celebration of "the season's bounty," as the invitation described the...

0 commentsIn September, when the City of Charlottesville and the Albemarle County Service Authority ordered all car washes to close, the news seemed to many restaurant owners like a shot fired over the bow.
It...

0 commentsWhen Hog Heaven picked up and left its prime location at the epicenter of downtown Belmont, the opportunity was ripe for a businessperson with a hankering to try their hand at restaurateuring.
For...

0 comments"I'll have a bottle of your best Bordeaux and $20 of high-test, please."
Pairing a fine wine and gasoline might seem a little unlikely, but you just might find yourself uttering such words in the not...

0 commentsBy the looks of it last week, we may have been the last people in town to visit Bashir's, which reopened September 3 in the post office building at the east end of the Downtown Mall.
From the groups...

0 commentsExams. Hangovers. Regrettable drunken hookups. College kids have always had plenty of excuses to be crabby, but now UVA students can be crabby whenever they want at CRAB (the Corner Restaurant and...

0 commentsDish teased a couple of weeks ago with the news that Jinx Kern, owner of the Pit Stop on Market Street, was seeking a second location, but we couldn't give specifics. This week, we've learned the...